Re: [PATCH v2] usb: gadget: ncm: Fix handling of zero block length packets

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On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 3:54 AM Krishna Kurapati
<quic_kriskura@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> While connecting to a Linux host with CDC_NCM_NTB_DEF_SIZE_TX
> set to 65536, it has been observed that we receive short packets,
> which come at interval of 5-10 seconds sometimes and have block
> length zero but still contain 1-2 valid datagrams present.
>
> According to the NCM spec:
>
> "If wBlockLength = 0x0000, the block is terminated by a
> short packet. In this case, the USB transfer must still
> be shorter than dwNtbInMaxSize or dwNtbOutMaxSize. If
> exactly dwNtbInMaxSize or dwNtbOutMaxSize bytes are sent,
> and the size is a multiple of wMaxPacketSize for the
> given pipe, then no ZLP shall be sent.
>
> wBlockLength= 0x0000 must be used with extreme care, because
> of the possibility that the host and device may get out of
> sync, and because of test issues.
>
> wBlockLength = 0x0000 allows the sender to reduce latency by
> starting to send a very large NTB, and then shortening it when
> the sender discovers that there’s not sufficient data to justify
> sending a large NTB"
>
> However, there is a potential issue with the current implementation,
> as it checks for the occurrence of multiple NTBs in a single
> giveback by verifying if the leftover bytes to be processed is zero
> or not. If the block length reads zero, we would process the same
> NTB infintely because the leftover bytes is never zero and it leads
> to a crash. Fix this by bailing out if block length reads zero.
>
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: 427694cfaafa ("usb: gadget: ncm: Handle decoding of multiple NTB's in unwrap call")
> Signed-off-by: Krishna Kurapati <quic_kriskura@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> Removed goto label
>
> Link to v1:
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240226112815.2616719-1-quic_kriskura@xxxxxxxxxxx/
>
>  drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_ncm.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_ncm.c b/drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_ncm.c
> index e2a059cfda2c..28f4e6552e84 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_ncm.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_ncm.c
> @@ -1346,7 +1346,7 @@ static int ncm_unwrap_ntb(struct gether *port,
>         if (to_process == 1 &&
>             (*(unsigned char *)(ntb_ptr + block_len) == 0x00)) {
>                 to_process--;
> -       } else if (to_process > 0) {
> +       } else if ((to_process > 0) && (block_len != 0)) {
>                 ntb_ptr = (unsigned char *)(ntb_ptr + block_len);
>                 goto parse_ntb;
>         }
> --
> 2.34.1

Reviewed-by: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@xxxxxxxxxx>





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